Build a Homemade TV Antenna from Coaxial Cable - DIY OTA TV Antenna

Been using Chromecast dongle but BBC streaming app is so temperamental. My wife wouldn't let me run a cable into the kitchen so I made your coax device and stuck it to a piece of cardboard and stuffed it behind the chest of drawers. We are only 20miles from a transmitter. PERFECT reception of digital programs. THANK YOU.

Thank you for this how-to. I was wondering: can I design my own multi-element dipole that includes parallel dipoles of lengths tuned to different frequencies?

i just made this last night to watch the NFL game with out lag for betting... i used an xatco knife and an old cable wire so all for free took 6 minutes and 4 were waiting for the search... making a bunch more for family tomorrow...

is this antenna works as my radio antenna sir?

Works great. Got about 10 channels. TY. Can explain why some antenna designs require the 75 to 300 ohm transformer and your design does not.

Thanks! Went from 18 channels with an old rabbit ears to 37 channels your way. Couple tips: you don't need to strip the center conductor, and I hot glued mine to a 12" scrap of wood, tape will work. I hang it from the window blinds. Test will be tomorrow morning when the morning sun pours in that window, I'll see if the hot glue holds.

Just made one of these for my bedroom, works just as good as my $100 indoor/outdoor unit I use for my living room.

tried it out of curiousity, got no channels. could just be my area or the fact that my metal roof is blocking it.

Most channels I got with coax is 30channels

As a telecommunications technician with a manufacturing consumer electronics background, believe me when I say major network throttling the signal feed deliberately.

Thank you! Worked great, appreciate you sharing this.

thank you so much

Ok

If shorter antennas receive for channels, what’s the point of the high he expensive ones?

This really works. I just did it myself 🙂

My tv is not working in belize have no channels and no signal

Or just use a paper clip as an antenna..picked up 62 channels.

simple and usefull

It worked for me in Montreal

It didn’t work for me could i have done something wrong

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Did same but made mine almost 12 inches aandd i got 33 channels. All in clearly! Grreaat job.

I was making these in 1972 ...

This works like a charm!! I just dumped cable and got a Roku but I still needed 2 antennas for local. You saved me about $60.

I "cut the cord" both literally and figuratively because I got the coax cable ends from my now useless cables. LoL

I've seen models of antenna where copper and braid are basically touching, not directly, but on different parts of the antenna (solid metal antenna, they eventually make connection because of this). what's up with that?

Great video, thanks!

Awesome! Worked perfectly for us! We actually went 3" and it works, at least for the channel we needed! Great tutorial!!

You can buy one for that hassle..5$

Can you use a longer coax cable in order to locate the antenna farther away from the tv or does a longer cable reduce reception?

I use a coax cable with a splitter and jump the splitter and it gives me 85 ch. In PA.

More Elements = Better Reception = More Channels with good quality reception and that's what you get with the "more fancy and expensive" antennas. They put more into what they make and they work better and they are also easier to put up and use in any situation. All that you need is a mounting base pole to put it on.

Worked for me out on my ranch. Saved me some money.
Thank you!

The price of the stripping tool would almost buy a cheap antenna at most box stores.

Thank you! I needed to move my HDTV antenna to another TV, and the 19" HDTV I use infrequently in my office needed a new antenna. Instead of buying a replacement, I make such an antenna using wood skewers and spare wire. The result was MORE than adequate for what I needed. I found more channels than I expected in my suburban home. For this set, I actually got more than the 40-mile rated flat HDTV antenna did, which was previously installed.

Wow, I just did this in like 15 minutes and my TV picked up around 100 channels, a few of them in 4k. Thanks for this!

Edit: maybe not 4k, but it was as good as a store bought antennae I got later that advertised 4k quality.

From all the homemade antennas videos I found this is the best, great explanation, very simple, and work like a charm! thank you very much

i did this right now and it works thanks to you Man......i got 5 channels but the show is the same...is there any solve for this?

This indoor antenna works only in city please boss

If you leave the plastic over the center conductor and strip away all the shielding copper. You won't have trouble with it shorting. You can tape the antenna to a bit of wood to hold it in its shape.